Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Chatting on the Plot => Topic started by: mrs bouquet on December 30, 2018, 15:05
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A couple of months ago I bought a Unibond Aero 360, it came with 2 spare things to fit into the gadget.
I cannot get the top from the bottom. The water collection inside is blue and sludgy. The first block ran out after a week or so, as did the second, they just totally disintegrate sitting on the spindle, and then drop into the reservoir, then I cannot open it. It is an ugly looking thing as well.
I know the area is not damp as I have always had a tray with crystals there, to collect window condensation when cooking. :D
Firstly, Robert Dyas, from whom I purchased it, asked for a review. However, they didn't like it, and so it was not shown.
Second, I went to Unibond site, and carried out the same review there. They didn't like it either, so it was not shown there either.
I suppose, as I suspected, that bad reviews are seldom shown - buyer beware :nowink: Mrs Bouquet
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MB, did you mean to say the area IS damp because you have the absorbent crystals to remove window condensation? Having just looked it up so I knew what it was, I'd contact the Unibond site because Dyas are just a firm who sells them on their behalf. If it's not fit for purpose then look at this site:
https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/consumer-rights-act
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I've had lots of reviews of my books on Amazon - some good, some not so good - which is fair enough, you can't please everybody. Only ever had one review removed and that was because it was libellous and from another author. Extra sad - I'd given his book a glowing review :D
Yell removed a review of a car dealer I put on - terrible man. I was very careful to be factual in what I said.
Incidentally, I found out you can buy reviews from some shady companies. They have networks of people who post them for products and books. One of the newspapers produced a rubbish Kindle book and had it pushed to the top of the charts to prove it. I didn't actually see the article but the reporter rang me and asked what I thought about it.
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I'm not sure that online reviews are reliable - as you have all observed.
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Where negative reviews are published, I find you often need to read between the lines - some reviewers have unreasonable expectations (like one for the gas cooker I bought last year - the lady complained that she was very disappointed with the second oven - it's actually the grill! :lol:)
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If I'm looking to buy something from wherever, I look at several reviews (including Which?) so I can get a sense of what people's experiences are as no product can ever be 100% all the time.
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I just wanted it to stop condensation on the kitchen window. It forms when I have cooked and I am sitting at the breakfast bar in front of window.
I suppose it must be doing something, otherwise there wouldn't be anything in it. The compressed ring of 'stuff' that gradually dissolves, is on a small plastic arm. I think the ring of stuff is too heavy for the plastic arm, and breaks away at the top then the whole ring collapses into the sludgy blue water. I have trouble then getting the top from the bottom without spilling sludge.
I think I shall just use the remaining refill and then write it off. I shall go back to the little oblong box that takes the Krystals. That always worked for me. I think I was just trying to be too clever :mad: Mrs Bouquet